Egg markings

[JenBDV]

Hello
Wondering what would cause this type of marking on an egg. Layed today by a leghorn, 7 months old. It's like she had dynamite for breakfast!
Thanks
I'm new to this site and owning chickens.
Currently have 18 hens (4 leghorn, 6 sexlinks, 4 Rhode Island red and 4 leghorn? with black spots (that lay teal eggs - we don't know that breed)
Greetings from Newfoundland, Canada!

 

[Gallinarium]

It looks like it's just a blood ring. You sometimes get those, especially when they're starting out. It isn't anything to worry about unless she continually lays eggs like that. Lovely eggs, by the way.

 

[Ridgerunner]

You can look through these and see if any look right to you. One easy explanation doesn't jump out at me, sort of a combination of stained egg and calcium deposits. I agree. If it is a one off situation, no big deal. If it repeats then it might be a problem. I'm sure the egg is still good.

Egg Quality Handbook

https://thepoultrysite.com/publications/egg-quality-handbook


Sumi – Egg Quality

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

4 leghorn? with black spots (that lay teal eggs -

That's not a true breed. Where did the chicks come from? Which hatchery? In the last very few years some hatcheries have developed their own colored egg layers and given them marketing names. It sounds like they may be one of those. If we knew which hatchery we could probably figure it out.

 

[aart]

Wondering what would cause this type of marking on an egg.

Curious what the shell and contents look like when you open it up.
Looks like thin porous shell.

It looks like it's just a blood ring.

never heard that term applied to an eating egg just laid,
rather when a hatching egg dies during incubation.

 

[JenBDV]

You can look through these and see if any look right to you. One easy explanation doesn't jump out at me, sort of a combination of stained egg and calcium deposits. I agree. If it is a one off situation, no big deal. If it repeats then it might be a problem. I'm sure the egg is still good.

Egg Quality Handbook

https://thepoultrysite.com/publications/egg-quality-handbook


Sumi – Egg Quality

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

4 leghorn? with black spots (that lay teal eggs -

That's not a true breed. Where did the chicks come from? Which hatchery? In the last very few years some hatcheries have developed their own colored egg layers and given them marketing names. It sounds like they may be one of those. If we knew which hatchery we could probably figure it out.

Thanks for your reply. When we cracked the egg, there was a small clot of blood in the white and a few specks of blood in the yolk. So it seems it was a broken blood vessel. All good!
I'm not sure what hatchery they came from - We ordered 8 leghorns from a country co-op store and they have the chicks flown in from out of province (possibly Ontario). So 4 of our leghorns have black spots, we were unaware of the difference until they started laying teal eggs. I guess they are not leghorns

 

[JenBDV]

Curious what the shell and contents look like when you open it up.
Looks like thin porous shell.

never heard that term applied to an eating egg just laid,
rather when a hatching egg dies during incubation.

There was a small brown clot of blood in the egg white and a few red blood specks in the yolk. Maybe a broken blood vessel? Or meat spot as I'm learning these new terms.
Thanks for the reply

 

[aart]

There was a small brown clot of blood in the egg white and a few red blood specks in the yolk. Maybe a broken blood vessel? Or meat spot as I'm learning these new terms.
Thanks for the reply

Most likely unrelated to the funky spot on the shell.

Blood spots are from a blood vessel breaking when ova is released from follicle.
Meat spots are from a tiny piece of tissue breaking loose from the reproductive tract.